Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] as i do " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ My main aim when writing my essay ‘ Thoughtless ’ was to try to convey my exact feelings at that particular moment : to make the reader feel as guilty as I did . |
2 | Did you not find it as strange as I did , that we should so immediately understand each other so well ? |
3 | See if you think it 's as peculiar as I do . ’ |
4 | ‘ So has my mother , though she does not put him as high as I do . ’ |
5 | No I 've nothing , any palpitations , nothing , I feel as fit as I did twenty years ago . |
6 | ‘ I wish you felt as ill as I do , you cruel thing ! |
7 | I knew perfectly well that he respected the Manager and even liked him though it was against his nature to admit it ; the thing that maddened him was that this had happened behind his back , and for a reason which he obviously found as inadequate as I did . |
8 | Because it 's a long time since I felt like this , as good as I do now . |
9 | All I know how to do is write songs , and that 's what I want to do because I would like people to feel as good as I did when I heard a song for the first time . ’ |
10 | I shall be left here looking ten times as fat as I do already and the poor little bastard wo n't even have a real name . ’ |
11 | But it 's getting easier for me to blend it all now ; I certainly do n't get as stuck as I did four or five months ago . ’ |
12 | I do not at this precise moment , therefore , feel quite as wretched as I did this morning after using the public telephone or as bewildered and terrorized as I did this afternoon while sitting half-frozen on the trembling suspension bridge across the sleazy Thames . |
13 | There were seventy- five paintings in the exhibition and by the time I left , which was quite early as I did not stay for dinner , most of the pictures had a little red sold label . |